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We evaluated square and circular binning approaches, without filtering the original data. Template matching achieved approximately 7 m root mean square error (RMSE) on intensity and surface templates on the respective geo-referenced images, while on terrain templates it had many mismatches due to insufficient terrain features over the assumed flight transect. Analysis of NCC showed the possibility of rejecting bad matches of intensity and surface templates, but terrain templates required an additional criteria of flatness for rejection. The combined NCC of intensity, surface and terrain proved stable for rejection of bad matches and had the lowest RMSE. Filtering outliers from surface images changed very little the accuracy of the matches, but greatly improved correlation values, indicating that the forest canopy might have the best features for geo-localization with template matching. Position estimation is essential for autonomous navigation of aerial vehicles and the these experiments with LiDAR data show potential for localization over densely forested regions where methods using optical camera data may fail to acquire distinguishable features.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14020361","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,14]],"date-time":"2022-01-14T03:14:03Z","timestamp":1642130043000},"page":"361","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Automatic Position Estimation Based on Lidar \u00d7 Lidar Data for Autonomous Aerial Navigation in the Amazon Forest Region"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5700-246X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Roberto Neves","family":"Salles","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Advanced Studies, Sao Jose dos Campos 12228-001, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4968-5330","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haroldo Fraga de","family":"Campos Velho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos 12227-010, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5226-0435","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Elcio Hideiti","family":"Shiguemori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Advanced Studies, Sao Jose dos Campos 12228-001, Brazil"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"281","DOI":"10.14358\/PERS.81.4.281","article-title":"Overview and Current Status of Remote Sensing Applications Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)","volume":"81","author":"Pajares","year":"2015","journal-title":"Photogramm. 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